ESA Assessment completed, am I over thinking things?

ShaunOfTheDead78

I didn't say "only 6 months will be awarded" etc etc as some have unfortunately taken it to mean.

No I fully agree, you didn't say ONLY 6 months would be awarded, but the sentence "more likely than not" came across to me as also saying there is an 85%+ chance it could be so I apologise if I took it out of context. I just don't get how a person as sick as myself with no way of holding down a job and been seen fit to be in the ESA support group for the past 3 years, that the DWP could even think I would be able to hold down a job if they saw me again face2face in 6 months time.. it begs belief.

KxMx

I appreciate your apology and I can see I should have made that part of my post clearer by saying it was my opinion and linking in the first place to the information. 

I totally agree with your viewpoint, I have a debilitating illness myself which isn't getting better and probably never will. Part of me thinks CHDA like all of us don't know how Covid is going to turn out, and they have to scramble to come up with guidelines without much information, even national Government have had to introduce rules sometimes literally overnight, but I've been claiming ESA for too long to be wholly charitable towards them! 

ShaunOfTheDead78

Something seriously needs sorting out it seems. I'm virtually housebound and manage to venture outside probably 4-6 times per year. And each assessment is always asking me to travel to an assessment centre when they obviously know from reading my records that I cannot. So each time I have to arrange a telephone appointment with my GP explain to them I need a doctor's letter to explain my condition and why I physically can't travel. Then have to send it off to assessment centre, for them to them arrange a home visit. You would think the 1st time my GP stated; This patient CANNOT travel and will NEVER get better would suffice. But no each bloody time they say it's 'outdated information' .. plus the doctors letter costs me around £35 each time